Contributor: Steven A. Newell Business Title: Senior Consultant Contact Information: Organization Resources Counselors, Inc. 1910 Sunderland Place, NW Washington DC 20036 Phone: 202 293 2980 Fax: 202 293 7316 E-mail: snewell@orc-dc.com Affiliation: Organization Resources Counselors, Inc. Organization Resources Counselors, Inc. is an international management and human resources consulting firm dedicated to advancing the art, knowledge, and practice of organizational and human relationships. Drawing on its research and in-depth experience, ORC works with clients to develop policies and practices that motivate their employees to contribute more effectively to the profitability and success of the organization. Biography: Steve Newell, currently a senior consultant with Organization Resources Counselors, Inc. Steve has over 25 years experience in occupational safety and health statistics, injury and illness recordkeeping and OSH management systems. Newell authored the current recordkeeping guidelines (the "Bluebook") while heading the ongoing safety and health programs at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and developed many of the changes that OSHA incorporated into the final recordkeeping rule while Director of OSHA's Office of Statistics. Since joining ORC in 1998 he has worked with major corporations to assist them in understanding and implementing the requirements.

Title of Presentation: A New Paradigm for Safety and Health Metrics: Framework, Tools, Applications, and Opportunities Author: Steve Newell Key Words: measure, metric, safety, health, performance, indicator, task force Abstract: Measuring Safety and Health performance has been a challenge for many in industry over the years. The traditional system in place today does not work well; OSHA data, used by many as the primary metric for workplace Safety and Health, are inherently flawed and not entirely appropriate for this purpose. Ironically, the metrics "solution" for health and safety has seemed elusive, even though much has been written on the subject and there are many consultants and experts in industry with a thorough knowledge of the Safety and Health performance measurement issues. As a result of dissatisfaction with their reliance on the current "trailing measures", many companies are now developing "leading indicators" to measure and track actions, events, and processes that precede and influence Safety and Health performance. Financial measures are also important because linking Safety and Health performance to the overall business is more critical than ever. As companies look to improve the bottom line, there is more and more interest in demonstrating the contributions made by Safety and Health The ORC Alternative Metrics Task Force includes more than 55 member companies committed to developing and implementing a more balanced metrics approach, which includes leading, trailing, and financial indicators. The ORC Alternative Metrics Task Force goals have been to: 1. Capture and catalog metrics work on Safety and Health metrics that has been done in the past. 2. Create a useful set of measurement reference materials that: · includes a balanced, menu-driven approach, candidate measures, and examples of model metrics processes, and · is capable of eventually being "owned" by operators, and easily understood and internalized by company leadership. This may require approaches that are outside of traditional Safety and Health thinking. 3. Develop benchmarking alternatives. The work of the ORC Task Force has been completed and will be covered in this session. In addition, the group will focus on identifying metrics appropriate for industrial hygiene, and will address issues of data availability and reliability. Leadership communication issues will also be addressed, along with the potential use of "out of the box" measures linked to other parts. Title of Presentation: Emerging Business Trends: The "Last Straw" - or - Strategic Opportunities for EH&S!! Author: Steve Newell Key Words: business, industry, emerging, converging, trends, safety, health, professional, strategy, partnership Abstract: It's still the same age-old question of perspective - Is the glass of water half empty or half full? The workplace seems to be changing at "light speed". Many of the "givens" that shaped corporate S&H decision-making in years past have changed. New business challenges are confronting industry at an incredible rate. Every part of the business seems to be feeling the pressure from global competition and the focus on increasing profits and shareholder value. How will safety and health fare in this constantly changing, high tech, high-intensity environment? As a profession, do we have the tools to cope?!! When confronted with change of this magnitude, we can assume the role of victim, observer, or opportunist. We can view these changes passively, as something that impacts other parts of the business but does not affect us directly. Or we can view them negatively, as something that will make our job more difficult by adding to the complexity of the S&H mission. In both of these scenarios, ignoring key trends presents the risk of ultimately being overwhelmed by them. . Alternatively, we can harness them to our strategic advantage. This session explores emerging, converging trends in industry and the opportunities that they present to the safety and health profession. Instead of viewing these changes in a negative context, trends are examined as a series of opportunities for S&H professionals to form strategic partnerships with colleagues in other part of the business. Furthermore, becoming a "player" in some of these emerging issues allows us to demonstrate S&H value added in areas of strategic importance to the rest of the business. "Chits" gained from these efforts can be used to promote the S&H mission in other parts of the business.